A Game (File Under: The New Yorker’s 100th Anniversary Celebration) The New Yorker has introduced something they call “Laugh Lines.” It has to do with placing New Yorker cartoons in the correct period they were published. I’ve said it before (will I ever say it again?) — I’m not a puzzles person (other than solving the daily puzzles that are the
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The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker The Cartoonists and Cartoons: Fifteen cartoons, fifteen cartoonists. One newbie: Sofia Glock, who is the first addition to The New Yorker cartoonist colosseum this year and the 166th cartoonist brought in since Emma Allen took the cartoon editor reins in
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Attempted Bloggery Begins To Tour The “Drawn From The New Yorker” Exhibit Stephen Nadler, otherwise known as Mr. Attempted Bloggery, has begun to take us on a tour of the Drawn From The New Yorker: A Centennial Celebration exhibit currently up at The Society of Illustrators. Check it out! –Above: Attempted Bloggery‘s photo of a Johan Bull design for The
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Latest Addition To The Spill Library: For Booklovers Only I really like these now ancient booklets designed to be distributed to New Yorker magazine advertisers. They’re really miniature themed collections that predate the titles such as The New Yorker Book of Cat Cartoons, The New Yorker Book of Dog Cartoons, etc., etc. Unlike those modern collections, these advertising booklets contain
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